Lt Eric Shine - is a 1991 graduate of the United
States Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point. Kings Point is one of the
four Federal Military Service Academies including West Point,
Annapolis, and the Air Force Academies.

Lt. Shine was up for promotion to Lieutenant
Commander in the U.S. Navy at the onset of the Gulf War when the “Coast
Guard” filed charges against him, pulling him out of Federal District
Court where he was prosecuting complaints against a number of Federal
Contractors for Federal Contracting violations. The Coast Guard pulled
him into what is clearly a Coast Guard military tribunal to quash the
civil complaints, where the Coast Guard is claiming that Lt. Shine is
instead of a Naval Officer, is a “civilian” within an Article 32 Coast
Guard Military Tribunal. The Coast Guard, as a self-declared “Special”
Branch of Military in the Department of Homeland Security, has been
continuously prosecuting Eric, as alleged civilian since March 06, ‘03
for allegedly “being depressed.”

Coast Guard in retaliation tried to somehow connect
Lt. Shine to Timothy McVeigh in the proceedings, although Lt. Shine has
no such connection, and Coast Guard has gone as far as to put out a “Be On the Look Out”
wanted or warning poster on Lt. Shine declaring that he may be
“dangerous.” Al of this only in response to Lt. Shine’s whistle blowing
and formal civil complaints about theft of U.S. Taxpayer/ Federal Funds
from the Department of Transportation and Department of Defense and
other federal authorities.

Beyond the initial complaints pertaining to
racketeering involving federal contracting and the United States
Merchant Marine and U.S. Navy, Lt. Shine is now raising alarm about what
is going on within Homeland Security and the Coast Guard, where the
Coast Guard when moved from the Department of Transportation in 2002/
2003 into the newly minted Department of Homeland Security, started to
claim and declare that it is and always has been a “Special” Branch of
Military that can carry on and administer “civilian affairs.”